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• Improved vocabulary production after naming therapy in aphasia: can gains in picture naming generalise to connected speech?

  
  COMD News — Authority: 154
  Background: Naming accuracy for nouns and verbs in aphasia can vary across different elicitation contexts, for example, simple picture naming, composite picture description, narratives, and conversation. For some people with aphasia, naming may be more accurate to simple pictures as opposed to naming in spontaneous, ...
  1 week ago

• Improved vocabulary production after naming therapy in aphasia: can gains in picture naming generalise to connected speech?

  
  COMD News — Authority: 154
  Background: Naming accuracy for nouns and verbs in aphasia can vary across different elicitation contexts, for example, simple picture naming, composite picture description, narratives, and conversation. For some people with aphasia, naming may be more accurate to simple pictures as opposed to naming in spontaneous, ...
  1 week ago

• Executive function and conversational strategies in bilingual aphasia

  
  COMD News — Authority: 154
  Background: Deficits of executive function (EF) have been proposed as all or part of the underlying mechanisms of language impairment in at least some types of aphasia. Executive functions also play a role in the recovery process. There is evidence that bilingual persons have some executive functioning advantages ...
  3 weeks ago

• Pod People!

  
  An Improvised Blog — Authority: 119
  Theyre free and plentiful and sometimes a bit too revealing... but improvisers love podcasting and sometimes not just about improv.  My friends, Jeff, Jeannie and Brett tell tales from aboard a cruise ship as they travel the Hawaiian islands for Second City in their podcast, " Aphasia Presents... ...
  4 weeks ago

• Schmidt wins German Book Prize for best novel

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 706
  Frankfurt, Oct 13 (DPA) Kathrin Schmidt, a 51-year-old Berlin-based author, won the 25,000 euros ($37,000) German Book Prize Monday for her novel Du Stirbst Nicht (You’re Not Going to Die).The novel describes a woman who wakes up in hospital after an aneurysm, with much of her memory lost, and painfully reconstructs ...
  4 weeks ago

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